Presidential Debate #1 – “He’s spent his life cheating middle-class laborers. Laborers like my own human father, who made, ah, I guess drapes, or printed drapes, or sold drapes, some’pm with drapes, and he was relatable, and I am, also, relatable!”

“How a sexed-up viral hit from the summer of ’09—1909—changed American pop music forever.” (Excerpts: “It was used in advertisements for everything from Broadway musicals to pretzels. It was translated by newspapers into Esperanto (“Ho! Vi kaprido!”). It was bellowed by a lovelorn Philadelphian as he leaped from a bridge into the Schuylkill River, attempting suicide. It brought scandal to a church in Geneva, Ill., when a prankster altered the hymnal, adding the line “but, oh, you kid!” to the lyrics of the devotional “I Love My God.””)

Millennial in China taking an excited photo with a bowl of rice. And by “millennial” I mean “circa 1900-1904.” Next time you hear someone complaining about Kids These Days sharing photos of their lunches on Instagram, you can bring up this hard evidence that the generation from a hundred years ago would have done the exact same thing.

Just hit the Internet: Four LGBT teenagers interview their elders who grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, about the underground community pre-Stonewall, the activism of all kinds in the era, and what it was like to come out in that era, in big ways and small.

Color video of gay men and women clubbing in the 1950s! Also possibly some trans people — there are folks in drag in both settings, at least.

From a 1963 documentary, thus the hilariously sexist narration. It’s well worth ignoring that part for the sake of the footage. Look at all these fabulous people who had the guts to let themselves be filmed in this setting.

(And wow, the commenters are right, the guy at 1:45 really does look like Steve Carell.)

Do you ever suspect that that something could be “an animated video in which Santa Claus and an anthropomorphized FOX News attack the Daily Show desk with rifles, only to have Jon Stewart defeat them using a fire extinguisher, then harness them to the sleigh and take off”?